Panel for wooden structures.



0. G. PENLASON.

PANEL FOR WOODEN STRUCTURES. APPLIOAZRION FILED OUT. 25,1901.

935,747. Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

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ORIN C. FENLASON, OF HOQUIAM, WASHINGTON.

PANEL FOR WOODEN STRUCTURES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

Application filed October 25, 1907. Serial No. 399,132.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORIN G. FENLAsoN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Ioquiam, in the county ofChehalis and State of Washington, have invented a new and useful Panelfor l/Vooden Structures, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in panels for boxes and otherwooden structures.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and lessen the costof constructing wooden boxes, etc., and to increase their strength anddurability and enable the sides, ends and partitions of a box to beeasily constructed of a frame and veneer, and to arrange the veneer sothat the tensile strength will operate to hold the framing together.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in theconstruction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claimshereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form,proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope ofthe claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan view of a panel, constructed inaccordance with this invention, the upper sheet of veneer being brokenaway to show the lower sheet. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 22of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is a sectional view, illustrating a modification of the invention, theveneer being arranged flush with both of the side faces of the frame.Fig. 5 is a sectional view, illustrating another form of invention, thesheets of veneer being fitted against each other and spaced from theside faces of the frame.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

The panel, which is designed to form the sides, ends and partition of abox, or analogous receptacle, is applicable to various other woodenstructures, and comprises a rectangular frame and two sheets of veneer 1and 2, which, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, arearranged with the grain of one sheet at right angles to the grain of theother sheet. The rectangular frame is composed of side and end bars ormembers 3 and t of uniform thickness, and having their side faces inflush relation, the terms side and end applied to the bars or membersbeing employed for convenience only, as the panel may be arranged eitherat the ends, sides, or top and bottom of a box, or in any other positionin a wooden structure. The end bars or members a are provided at theirinner edges with grooves 5, extending downwardly and inwardly from theadjacent corners of the said bars or members 4, and arranged at an angleto the con I tiguous faces of the same, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2of the drawings. The opposite edges 6 of the top sheet of veneer arefitted in the grooves 5, which when the sheet of veneer is in position,operate to grip or clamp the same, and thereby prevent the sheet frombeing pulled out of the grooves.

The attached edges 6 of the top sheet of veneer are positively securedto the bars or members 4 by suitable fastening means, such as staples 7,and the latter are embedded in the bars or members 4 and pierce theedges 6 of the veneer. The staples also operate to cause the side wallsof the grooves to more firmly grip the edges of the veneer. The sideedges of the top sheet are free and are not attached to the side bars ormembers 3 of the frame.

The bottom or lower sheet 2 of veneer is fitted against the inner facesof the outer sheet, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of thedrawings, and the side edges of the sheet 2 are fitted in inclined orangularly disposed grooves 8, which have their openings located in aplane below the openings of the grooves of the end bars 01' members.This arrangement permits the top sheet of veneer to be arranged flushwith the upper faces of the bars or members of the frame, and places thelower sheet of veneer in position for supporting and stifiening theupper sheet. The end edges of the bottom sheet of veneer are free, andthe attached side edges are secured to the side bars or members 3 bystaples 9.

The arrangement of the top sheet of veneer in flush relation with thebars or members of the rectangular frame provides a smooth fiat face atone of the faces of the panel, and the latter is especially adapted foruse in the construction of orange and other fruit boxes, and is designedto be arranged with its smooth flat face at the inside of the box toavoid cutting, or otherwise injuring the fruit. In constructing suchorange boxes, the side pieces will be na1led or otherwise secured in theusual manner to the outer edges of the panels, which will constltute theends of the box. When it is desired to use the panel as a partition fororange boxes and other receptacles, both of the sheet of veneer 10 and11 will be arranged in flush relation with the frame bars or members, asclearly illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. The frame bars or members12 and 13 are provided at the faces of the panel with grooves Ll and 15,extending from the corners of the respective bars or members andreceiving the opposite edges of the veneer. This brings the sheets ofveneer in flush relation with the faces of the frame bars or members,and the panel will present a smooth fiat face or surface at each side soas not to injure the fruit.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings the sheets 16 and 17 of veneer are located inplanes centrally of the panel and have their attached edges secured ingrooves 18 and 19 of bars or members 20 and 21 of the frame. The grooves20 are arr. nged in parallelism with the faces of the bars or members atopposite sides of the panel, and the veneer is secured to the frame bystaples 22, or other suitable fastening devices.

Owing to the arrangement of the sheets of veneer so that the tensilestrength of the veneer serves to bind the bars or members of theframetogether, the adjacent ends of the bars or members may be securedtogether by staples 23, or other suitable fastening devices, but thesaid bars or members may be jointed in any well known manner, ifdesired. When the panels are assembled in a box, the tensile strength ofthe veneer carries'the weight of the material contained in the boxwhether such weight rests upon the sides, top, bottom or ends of thereceptacle.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A partition or panel of the class described including an openrectangular frame composed of bars or members connected together attheir ends, and separate sheets of veneer, each having two of its edgesattached to two opposite bars or members of the frame, the other twoedges of each sheet of veneer being free, one sheet being connected toone palr of the bars or members and the other sheet to a dlfferent pairof bars or members, and the grain of the two. sheets of veneer beingdlsposed 1n angular relation so that the tensile strength of the veneerwill hold the bars or members of the frame together.

2. A partition or panel of the class clescribed comprising a rectangularframe composed of side and end bars or members provided at their inneredges with grooves, the grooves of the side bars or members beingarranged in a different plane from the groove of the end bars ormembers, and separate sheets of veneer, one of the sheets having itsside edges secured in the grooves of the side bars or members and theother sheet having its end edges secured in the grooves of the end barsor members, and the grain of the two sheets of veneer being arranged inangular relation so that the tensile strength of the veneer will operateto hold the frame members together.

3. A partition or panel of the class described comprising a. framecomposed of veneer having their opposite edges secured.

in the grooves of the frame bars or members, one of the sets of groovesopening at the corners of the respective bars or members, whereby one ofthe sheets of veneer is arranged in flush relation with the bars ormembers of the frame.

4. A panel or partition of the class described comprising a framecomposed of bars or members provided at their inner edges with grooves,and separate sheets of veneer, each sheet having two of its edgesattached to the opposite bars or members and the other two edges of thesheet being free, one of the sheets being arranged in flush relationwith the faces ofthe bars or members at one side of the panel.

5. A panel or partition of the class described comprising a framecomposed of bars or members provided at their inner edges with grooves,and separate sheets of veneer, each sheet having two of its edgesattached to the opposite bars or members and the other two edges of thesheet being free, one of the sheets being arranged in flush relationwith the faces of the bars or members at one side of the panel, and theother sheet of veneer being contiguous to and supporting the firstmentioned sheet.

6. A panel or partition of the class described comprising a framecomposed of bars or members provided at their inner edges with grooves,and separate sheets of veneer, each sheet having two of its edgesattached to the opposite bars or members and the other two edges of thesheet being free, one of the sheets being arranged in flush relationwith the faces of the bars or members at one side of the panel, and theother sheet of veneer being contiguous to and supporting the firstmentioned sheet, said sheets of veneer having their grain arranged inangular relation, whereby the tensile strength of the veneer willoperate to bind the bars or members of the frame together.

7. A partition or panel comprising an open rectangular frame composed ofsides and ends, and two sheets filling the space between the sides andends and placed with the grain of one crossing the grain of the other,the opposite ends of one sheet being secured to the sides While theopposite ends of the other sheet are secured to the ends, the remainingportions of the sheets being unattached.

8. A panel or partition comprising a frame composed of bars or membersprovided at their inner edges with grooves, and separate sheets ofveneer, one of the sheets having its opposite edges fitted in thegrooves of the end bars or members, and the other sheet being fitted inthe grooves of the side bars or members, the remaining edges of thesheets being unattached, and fastening devices extending across thegrooves and piercing the sheets of veneer and causing the walls of thegrooves to grip the sheets of veneer.

9. A panel or partition comprising a frame composed of bars or membersprovided at their inner edges with inclined grooves, and separate sheetsof veneer, one of the sheets having its opposite edges fitted in thegrooves of the end bars or members of the frame, and the other sheethaving its opposite edges fitted in the grooves of the side bars ormembers of the frame, the remaining edges of the sheets of veneer beingunattached, and staples piercing the attached edges of the sheets ofveneer and extending across the grooves and causing the side Wallsthereof to grip the veneer.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have heretoaflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ORIN C. FENLASON.

\Vitnesses S. GEORGE TATE, HOWARD D. ORR.

